Arch-support.



L. DURIEU.

ARCH SUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED 11mm, 1910.

- Patented Feb. 28, 1911.

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A QFF -E LEON DURIEU, or NEW YORK; N. 1%]

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' zen of the-United Sta Beit'known that 'L'Lr'iox. citites, and a resident. of

the city of .New Yorlgborough of Manhattan, in the county and state-ofNew York,

have invented a new. and Improved Arch- Support, of which the following-is a full,

clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to boots and shoes, prove dfarch support, arrangedto permit of and its object is'to provide a new and imconveniently placing it in a shoe or boot,

" ,with--a view to properly support the arch of 'thefoot of the wearer without producing' discomfortawhile walking or resting. For

-tjhe1purpose mentioned use is .made of a pocketihaving a heel'ex'tensionand a sue-- '-tai n ing plate ivithin the said pocket and.

having a convex top, and-a flexing terminal at the .inner side capable of following the instep portion of. the shoe upper.

A practical embodiment ofthe'invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming-apart of this specification, in

whichsimilar characters of referenee indi- V Figure l-is a perspective view of the arch support';'- Fig. 2 is'a like view. of the sustaining plate; 'Fig. 3 is a longitudinal seccxtension-Cfitting the heel portion of the tional elevation of the arch support in poshoe orboot- D in which thearch support is used. the pocket A and its plate B extend.-

ing in the instep or archportion of the shoe of the foot of the wearer. The sustaining? or -l)00t,'-lf-S plainly indicated-in Fig. 3.'

The sustaining plat-e'B is'prcferablymade of comparatively stifi' leather, shaped to produce a. convex top, to conform to the arch Specification of Letters Patent; I Patented Feb, 1911; f Application liled AugxistZ; i910. Seria1 No..575 ,06 5.

plate B is provided on, its :upper face near the inner-side with a loagitu'dinally-extend-.

l ner side portion ofthe pocket in firm eonlactjwith the inner side of the arch .to he sustained thus supporting the arch at, its weakest portion. and preventing sagging thereof;

into the shoe, in orderto bring the sustainin; plate in 'proper'positlonrelat ve to the arch of the foot of the wearelaf.

Tt-is understood that the'arch is acomvhenever desired.

The-arch support is m to suit different sized shoes.-

ters Patent-z leather served together, the pieces being ex tended rearwardly beyond the pocket and shoe to hold the pocket in the' instep portion oftheshoc. andagsus'taining plate of compooketand having a'eon-vex topa-nd proform a flexible side. i

two sul'iseribing ivitnesses.

'Witnessesi i JNOQP DAVI S; PHILTP D, Roman-ms.

In practice Ifprefer 'to in a lze the pocket i somewhat'larger than the sustaining plate B, so that the latter has a limited-adjustplete' article in itself and can be readily placed in the shoe or removed therefrom ade in arious sizes Having thus described mydnventitm, .I. claim as new and desire to secure by Let- @An' arch support for use in sl 1 oes,fcomprising apocket .formed by two weeds of paratively stiff leather held in the said .In testimonyWhereof'I have signed. my name to' this speclficatlon 1n the presence of LEo'N' DURIE wearer prior 'to'placing the arch supportishaped to fit, into the heel portion of. the.

vided-n ithj-a longitudinal cut whereby to 

